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People take shelter at a school in Teknaf, the southern-most border town in Bangladesh, ahead of the arrival of Cyclone Mocha. Bangladeshi authorities had moved 190,000 people in Cox's Bazar and nearly 100,000 in Chittagong to safety ahead of the cyclonic storm. IMAGES
Wind and rain in Myanmar's Kyanktaw as tropical Cyclone Mocha forecast to make landfall in hours. IMAGES
Myanmar's junta pardoned more than 2,000 political prisoners to mark a Buddhist holiday, with families rushing to prisons for tearful reunions with loved ones jailed in a sweeping crackdown on dissent. IMAGES
The World Food Programme's (WFP) Assistant Executive Director, Valerie Guarnieri, speaking from Rome during a UN briefing says that "27 million people have been affected by the El Nino-induced drought" in South Africa adding that almost four million children are suffering from "acute malnutrition". SOUNDBITE
Bangladeshis leave their coastal homes for concrete storm shelters further inland as the low-lying nation prepares for the expected landfall of Cyclone Remal on Sunday evening. IMAGES
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